将功补过
Traditional form:
將功補過
Pinyin (reading):
jiānggōngbǔguò
Definitions:
- to make up for one's faults by doing good deeds (idiom)
Characters:
- 将 - the future, what will be; ready, prepared; a general
- 功 - achievement, good work; merit; service
- 补 - to fix, to mend, to patch, to restore
- 过 - pass; to go across, to pass through
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